In Dragon Ball: A brutal beating of Frieza at the start

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Damn it! She rushed towards the lab, nearly bumping into another version of herself along the way. This Bulma was wearing a purple lab coat and a badge that read "Capsule Corporation's Chief Scientist."

Blue sparks burst forth the moment their fingertips touched.

"Ah!" Bulma collapsed to the ground, watching her right hand disintegrate into particles of light. Wearing a research lab coat, Bulma also staggered back in horror: This is impossible... a parallel universe interference phenomenon.

Both Bulma looked up simultaneously, and the laboratory's quantum monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm. On the main control screen, a model of Earth was slowly merging with another semi-transparent Earth, the contact point flashing with densely packed red dots.

"All universes share the same central coordinates..." Bulma, in her research suit, muttered to herself, her fingers flying across the virtual keyboard. This violated the fundamental theory of the multiverse...

"Hey! Tell me how to stop this first!" Bulma grabbed the molecular stabilizer from the table and aimed it at her dissipating arm. At that moment, the entire building shook violently, and dust rained down from the ceiling.

A deafening explosion echoed in the distance. Through the shattered windows, they saw two golden figures locked in battle above the city—both were Sun Wukong, but one wore a familiar orange martial arts uniform, while the other was dressed in a black combat suit.

"Kakarot!" Goku in his black battle suit suddenly stopped, staring at the other person in astonishment. "How could you...?"

Sun Wukong, dressed in an orange martial arts uniform, grinned: "That's what I should be asking you."

The two simultaneously threw punches, and a dazzling blue light erupted the moment their fists collided. The shockwave swept across half of West City, and Bulma was thrown to the ground by the blast. When she got up, the two Son Gokus outside the window had already turned into countless scattered specks of light.

Annihilation reaction... Bulma in her research suit turned pale. The encounter of identical entities will cause the quantum state to collapse!

Bulma's communicator suddenly crackled to life with Piccolo's urgent voice: "Bulma! Can you hear me? Universe 7 is merging with Universe 6! Piccolo says he saw another version of himself on Namek—"

Communication abruptly ceased. The two Bulma exchanged a glance and simultaneously rushed towards the underground laboratory.

The quantum isolation shield must be activated! Bulma, in her research suit, opened a hidden compartment, revealing a red emergency button inside.

Wait! Bulma grabbed her wrist. That thing would sever all cosmic connections, including those that hadn't yet overlapped!

"Don't you understand yet?" Bulma, in her research suit, shook off her hand and pointed to the progress bar on the screen, which showed an overlap rate of 37%. "When the overlap rate reaches 100%, all of us in parallel universes will annihilate each other!"

The lab suddenly went dark, with only the cold light from the screen illuminating their pale faces. After the backup power came on, Bulma discovered an unfamiliar device on the main control panel—a miniature universe model suspended inside a spherical shell.

"You developed a trans-universe observation device?" Bulma looked at her other self in shock.

It wasn't me. Bulma, in her research suit, was equally perplexed; this thing shouldn't exist in any universe...

Suddenly, the spherical device projected a holographic star map, with tens of thousands of cosmic bubbles floating in the void. A red line extended from the center of all the cosmic bubbles, converging towards the same coordinate point—Earth.

Earth is the center of all universes? Bulma's finger passes through a hologram—that's not scientifically possible...

The piercing alarm sounded again. Surveillance footage showed two Gohans fighting on the outskirts of Xidu, one wearing Gohan's high school uniform and the other in his adult attire.

"Gohan! Separate them!" Bulma shouted into the communicator, but it was too late. The two Gohans' Kamehameha waves collided, and their bodies began to disintegrate within the blue energy wave.

"Dad—!" Young Gohan stretched out his hand to the sky, and the next second he turned into countless particles of light and disappeared in the wind.

Bulma slammed her fist on the control panel: Damn it! She turned to her other self: How long can the quantum isolation shield last?

At most 12 hours. Bulma in her research suit was calculating rapidly, but someone needed to go to the central coordinate point to install the stabilizer.

The holographic star map suddenly magnified, locking onto the core of the overlapping region—the island where Master Roshi's mansion is located. The image showed that spatial folds had appeared there, with seawater pouring into the distorted spacetime rifts.

"Oh my god." Bulma grabbed her gear bag. "You're more familiar with quantum physics, stay here and maintain the shield."

Bulma, in her research gown, suddenly pressed down on her shoulder: "Wait." She took a pendant off her neck. "Wear this; it will slow down your quantum decomposition."

A blue crystal was sealed inside the pendant, gleaming strangely under the light. The moment Bulma put it on, she felt the veins beneath her skin begin to burn.

what is this?

Antimatter stabilizer. Bulma's eyes suddenly became complicated as she looked at him in his research suit. "It took me twenty years to refine this one gram... Use with caution."

Bulma nodded and rushed towards the capsule garage. As she started the aircraft, the rearview mirror reflected the devastation of the entire West City—countless buildings existed simultaneously in two different timelines, and the streets were filled with versions of themselves annihilating each other.

After the spacecraft took off, Bulma discovered a huge mechanical wreckage floating in the clouds. It was clearly not Earth technology; Saiyan script was inscribed on the surface of the wreckage.

Frieza's army from a parallel universe? She brought up the scanner and suddenly felt a chill run through her body—hundreds of life signals were detected inside the wreckage, all with the same energy signature.

The communicator crackled with static, followed by Vegeta's broken voice: "Woman...listen...don't let anyone...me get close..."

The signal suddenly cut off. Bulma accelerated, her aircraft leaving a blue trail of flame as it streaked through the distorted spacetime. As she approached Kame-sen Island, the sea had become an eerie mirror, reflecting countless islands from different eras.

As she landed, she nearly bumped into another version of herself—that version of Bulma, wearing the same red dress she wore in her youth, staring in horror at the suddenly appearing aircraft.

"Get away! Don't touch me!" Young Bulma screamed as she backed away, holding up the Dragon Radar.

"Listen! We must—" Bulma's words trailed off. She saw another Vegeta standing behind the younger Bulma, whose power level scanner displayed astonishing numbers.

Finally found it. Vegeta from another universe grinned maliciously; the center of all universes...

The two Vegetas' gazes met in mid-air. Bulma knew what was about to happen, and she lunged at her younger self: Run!

But it was too late. The two Vegetas charged forward simultaneously, their fists colliding and unleashing a light brighter than the sun. The shockwave sent Bulma flying, and the last thing she saw was her younger self's terrified face, and the two Vegetas dissipating into particles of light.

No—! Bulma fell onto the beach, the blue light from the pendant flickering. She struggled to her feet and discovered that Master Roshi's House had become semi-transparent, containing Master Roshi from different eras.

The holographic locator showed that the center coordinates were directly below Master Roshi's House. Bulma gritted her teeth and rushed to the beach, only to see an even more horrifying sight in the shallow water—countless Bulma corpses were floating on the surface, each wearing the same blue pendant.

This...this is...her voice trembled. The nearest corpse clutched a note, which Bulma shakily took out. It contained only one line:

Don't trust anyone about me.

The waves suddenly surged violently, and a giant wave swept Bulma into the sea. Before losing consciousness, she saw a blinding blue light shimmering on the seabed—tens of thousands of blue crystals forming a giant icosahedral structure.

The center of all universes is right there.

The sky over the western capital city has cracked open.

The coffee cup in Bulma's hand suddenly shattered, the brown liquid solidifying into countless crystalline droplets in mid-air. She looked up at the window, her pupils contracting sharply—two suns hung in the sky, one of them gleaming with an eerie blue light.

Damn it! She rushed towards the lab, nearly bumping into another version of herself along the way. This Bulma was wearing a purple lab coat and a badge that read "Capsule Corporation's Chief Scientist."

Blue sparks burst forth the moment their fingertips touched.

"Ah!" Bulma collapsed to the ground, watching her right hand disintegrate into particles of light. Wearing a research lab coat, Bulma also staggered back in horror: This is impossible... parallel universe interference...

Both Bulma looked up simultaneously, and the laboratory's quantum monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm. On the main control screen, a model of Earth was slowly merging with another semi-transparent Earth, the contact point flashing with densely packed red dots.

"All universes share the same central coordinates..." Bulma, in her research suit, muttered to herself, her fingers flying across the virtual keyboard. This violated the fundamental theory of the multiverse...

"Hey! Tell me how to stop this first!" Bulma grabbed the molecular stabilizer from the table and aimed it at her dissipating arm. At that moment, the entire building shook violently, and dust rained down from the ceiling.

A deafening explosion echoed in the distance. Through the shattered windows, they saw two golden figures locked in battle above the city—both were Sun Wukong, but one wore a familiar orange martial arts uniform, while the other was dressed in a black combat suit.

"Kakarot!" Goku in his black battle suit suddenly stopped, staring at the other person in astonishment. "How could you...?"

Sun Wukong, dressed in an orange martial arts uniform, grinned: "That's what I should be asking you."

The two simultaneously threw punches, and a dazzling blue light erupted the moment their fists collided. The shockwave swept across half of West City, and Bulma was thrown to the ground by the blast. When she got up, the two Son Gokus outside the window had already turned into countless scattered specks of light.

Annihilation reaction... Bulma in her research suit turned pale. The encounter of identical entities will cause the quantum state to collapse!

Bulma's communicator suddenly crackled to life with Piccolo's urgent voice: "Bulma! Can you hear me? Universe 7 is merging with Universe 6! Piccolo says he saw another version of himself on Namek—"

Communication abruptly ceased. The two Bulma exchanged a glance and simultaneously rushed towards the underground laboratory.

The quantum isolation shield must be activated! Bulma, in her research suit, opened a hidden compartment, revealing a red emergency button inside.

Wait! Bulma grabbed her wrist. That thing would sever all cosmic connections, including those that hadn't yet overlapped!

"Don't you understand yet?" Bulma, in her research suit, shook off her hand and pointed to the progress bar on the screen, which showed an overlap rate of 37%. "When the overlap rate reaches 100%, all of us in parallel universes will annihilate each other!"

The lab suddenly went dark, with only the cold light from the screen illuminating their pale faces. After the backup power came on, Bulma discovered an unfamiliar device on the main control panel—a miniature universe model suspended inside a spherical shell.

"You developed a trans-universe observation device?" Bulma looked at her other self in shock.

It wasn't me. Bulma, in her research suit, was equally perplexed; this thing shouldn't exist in any universe...

Suddenly, the spherical device projected a holographic star map, with tens of thousands of cosmic bubbles floating in the void. A red line extended from the center of all the cosmic bubbles, converging towards the same coordinate point—Earth.

Earth is the center of all universes? Bulma's finger passes through a hologram—that's not scientifically possible...

The piercing alarm sounded again. Surveillance footage showed two Gohans fighting on the outskirts of Xidu, one wearing Gohan's high school uniform and the other in his adult attire.

"Gohan! Separate them!" Bulma shouted into the communicator, but it was too late. The two Gohans' Kamehameha waves collided, and their bodies began to disintegrate within the blue energy wave.

"Dad—!" Young Gohan stretched out his hand to the sky, and the next second he turned into countless particles of light and disappeared in the wind.

Bulma slammed her fist on the control panel: Damn it! She turned to her other self: How long can the quantum isolation shield last?

At most 12 hours. Bulma in her research suit was calculating rapidly, but someone needed to go to the central coordinate point to install the stabilizer.

The holographic star map suddenly magnified, locking onto the core of the overlapping region—the island where Master Roshi's mansion is located. The image showed that spatial folds had appeared there, with seawater pouring into the distorted spacetime rifts.

"Oh my god." Bulma grabbed her gear bag. "You're more familiar with quantum physics, stay here and maintain the shield."

Bulma, in her research gown, suddenly pressed down on her shoulder: "Wait." She took a pendant off her neck. "Wear this; it will slow down your quantum decomposition."

A blue crystal was sealed inside the pendant, gleaming strangely under the light. The moment Bulma put it on, she felt the veins beneath her skin begin to burn.

what is this?

Antimatter stabilizer. Bulma's eyes suddenly became complicated as she looked at him in his research suit. "It took me twenty years to refine this one gram... Use with caution."

Bulma nodded and rushed towards the capsule garage. As she started the aircraft, the rearview mirror reflected the devastation of the entire West City—countless buildings existed simultaneously in two different timelines, and the streets were filled with versions of themselves annihilating each other.

After the spacecraft took off, Bulma discovered a huge mechanical wreckage floating in the clouds. It was clearly not Earth technology; Saiyan script was inscribed on the surface of the wreckage.

Frieza's army from a parallel universe? She brought up the scanner and suddenly felt a chill run through her body—hundreds of life signals were detected inside the wreckage, all with the same energy signature.

The communicator crackled with static, followed by Vegeta's broken voice: "Woman...listen...don't let anyone...me get close..."

The signal suddenly cut off. Bulma accelerated, her aircraft leaving a blue trail of flame as it streaked through the distorted spacetime. As she approached Kame-sen Island, the sea had become an eerie mirror, reflecting countless islands from different eras.

As she landed, she nearly bumped into another version of herself—that version of Bulma, wearing the same red dress she wore in her youth, staring in horror at the suddenly appearing aircraft.

"Get away! Don't touch me!" Young Bulma screamed as she backed away, holding up the Dragon Radar.

"Listen! We must—" Bulma's words trailed off. She saw another Vegeta standing behind the younger Bulma, whose power level scanner displayed astonishing numbers.

Finally found it. Vegeta from another universe grinned maliciously; the center of all universes...

The two Vegetas' gazes met in mid-air. Bulma knew what was about to happen, and she lunged at her younger self: Run!

But it was too late. The two Vegetas charged forward simultaneously, their fists colliding and unleashing a light brighter than the sun. The shockwave sent Bulma flying, and the last thing she saw was her younger self's terrified face, and the two Vegetas dissipating into particles of light.

No—! Bulma fell onto the beach, the blue light from the pendant flickering. She struggled to her feet and discovered that Master Roshi's House had become semi-transparent, containing Master Roshi from different eras.

The holographic locator showed that the center coordinates were directly below Master Roshi's House. Bulma gritted her teeth and rushed to the beach, only to see an even more horrifying sight in the shallow water—countless Bulma corpses were floating on the surface, each wearing the same blue pendant.

This...this is...her voice trembled. The nearest corpse clutched a note, which Bulma shakily took out. It contained only one line:

Don't trust anyone about me.

The waves suddenly surged violently, and a giant wave swept Bulma into the sea. Before losing consciousness, she saw a blinding blue light shimmering on the seabed—tens of thousands of blue crystals forming a giant icosahedral structure.

The center of all universes is right there.